Imagining Armenia : Orientalism, ambiguity and intervention /

Laycock, Jo,

Imagining Armenia : Orientalism, ambiguity and intervention / Jo Laycock. - 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. - Cultural history of modern war .

Originally published: Manchester University Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.

Introduction : from cradle of civilisation to victim nation : Britain and Armenia 1875-1925 -- Imagining Armenia : otherness, orientalism and ambiguity -- The boundary of the civilised world? : Images of Armenia during the late nineteenth century -- 'The murder of a nation' : representing the Armenian genocide of 1915 -- Armenian refugees : representation, relief and repatriation -- Post-war Armenia : visions, realities and responses -- Conclusions : the Armenian past, present and future in the British imagination.

9781784993719 (paperback)

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Armenian question.


Armenia--Foreign public opinion, British--History--20th century.
Armenia--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--Armenia.
Armenia--History--Historiography.--1801-1900
Armenia--History--Historiography.--1901-

DS194 / .L385 2016

956.6/2